False because the amendment did become successful but it led to more organized crime do to boot leg gets becoming rich aka gangsters creating speakeasies (those are like clubs) where people could drink illegally
1) Invasions by Barbarian tribes
2) Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor
3) The rise of the Eastern Empire
4) Overexpansion and military overspending
5) Government corruption and political instability
6) The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes
7) Christianity and the loss of traditional values
8) Weakening of the Roman legions
He believed in the absolute power of kings
